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Media Regulation

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Daniel Drageset: AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Coordinator at the Pacific Freedom Forum, Jason Brown, is hopeful that the new Pacific Media Ombudsman will bring enhanced accountability and...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Mark Pearson: OPINION: It’s a great shame when political and commercial vested interests drown out compelling and principled arguments for free expression in this Australian media reform debate.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Jyoti Pratibha SUVA (Fiji Sun / Pacific Media Watch):  Charges have been filed at the Suva Magistrates Court registry against newspaper company Fiji Times Limited and its six directors...
Sunday, October 14, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): News media need to raise the media accountability debate to the level of media regulation to recover from the News of the World phone hacking "debacle",...
Friday, August 31, 2012
Henry Yamo RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill declared today there was no ban on foreign journalists entering the...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
SYDNEY (MEAA / Pacific Media Watch): The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is concerned that foreign journalists have been banned from accessing the proposed Regional Processing Centre for...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
PORT MORESBY (Pacific Media Watch): The ban on foreign journalists on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea is making waves across the Pacific as leaders gather for the Pacific Islands Forum on...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Rachel Reeves of the Cook Islands News AVARUA, Rarotonga (Cook Islands News / Pacific Media Watch): Foregoing his commitment to play 18 holes with French Polynesian President Oscar Temaru, Prime...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
LONDON (ABC News / Pacific Media Watch): News Corporation has announced a loss of $US1.6 billion (A$1.5b) in the fourth quarter after writing down its publishing businesses, including in Australia...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Alex Perrottet AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): A visiting media law specialist has questioned why it took so long for police to take action in the UK phone hacking scandal and has called for...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tim Pankhurst OPINION: New Zealand’s law commission has proposed a crackdown on inciting suicide on the internet and the publication of intimate photographs without permission. What does this...
Thursday, July 12, 2012
James Apa Gumuno PORT MORESBY (The National / Pacific Media Watch): The media has been banned from covering counting for the Hagen Central open electorate in Western Highlands province.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Savea Sano Malifa OPINION: APIA (Samoa Observer / Pacific Media Watch): One of the prickly issues that raised much concern at the International Press Institute (IPI) World Congress at the Port of...
Monday, July 9, 2012
AUCKLAND (Save TVNZ7 / Pacific Media Watch): Save TVNZ7, the group trying to keep public service television alive in New Zealand, has lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman over Television NZ’...
Friday, June 29, 2012
Alex Perrottet  AUCKLAND (Media7/Pacific Media Watch): On its final edition last night, Russell Brown’s Media7 dissected the strange times for journalists with the...